Kernel selftests wait 1.25x of the promised stats refresh time (as read from ethtool -c). bnxt reports 1sec by default, but the stats update process has two steps. First device DMAs the new values, then the service task performs update in full-width SW counters. So the worst case delay is actually 2x. Note that the behavior is different for ring stats and port stats. Port stats are fetched synchronously by the service worker, so there's no risk of doubling up the delay there. The problem of stale stats impacts not only tests but real workloads which monitor egress bandwidth of a NIC. The inaccuracy causes double counting in the next cycle and spurious overload alarms. Try to read from the DMA buffer more aggressively, to mitigate timing issues between DMA and service task. The SW update should be cheap. Fixes: 51f307856b60 ("bnxt_en: Allow statistics DMA to be configurable using ethtool -C.") Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260619191538.104165-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>